Events
of the day
World
Pharmacists Day
The
International Pharmaceutical Federation
(FIP) strongly encourages all pharmacists
and their associations across the globe
to participate in World Pharmacists Day
on 25 September. This year’s theme is:
“Access
to pharmacists is access to health”
For
many years, FIP has recognized that access
to medicines is a major issue in many parts
of the world and pharmacists play a key
role throughout the whole supply chain towards
improving access to medicines.
However, access to medicines itself will
not result automatically in optimal health
outcomes.
September
25 : World Maritime Day
World Maritime Day for 2014 is Thursday,
25 September.
The
theme for this year's World Maritime Day
"IMO conventions: effective implementation"
was chosen in order to provide an opportunity
to shine a spotlight on those IMO treaty
instruments, which have not yet entered
into force, as well as those for which ratification
by more States and more effective implementation
would yield significant benefits.
275
– In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian),
the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus
Emperor.
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel,
Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in
Amiens, France.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks
the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats
a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa
reaches what would become known as the Pacific
Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in
Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of
the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign
and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear
in the Americas, is published for the first
and only time.
1775 – Ethan Allen surrenders to British
forces after attempting to capture Montreal
during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the
same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary
company set off from Fort Western, bound
for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments
to the United States Constitution: the Congressional
Apportionment Amendment (which was never
ratified), the Congressional Compensation
Amendment, and the ten that are known as
the Bill of Rights.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of
the Lakota) demand one of the boats from
the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll
for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor
capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate
Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland
while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia
National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before
a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully
demonstrates the invention of the Telekino
in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from
the shore, in what is considered the birth
of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park
in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism is founded in New York, New
York.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of
Champagne begins.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first
blind flight from Mitchel Field proving
that full instrument flying from take off
to landing is possible.
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction
of September 25, 1942 – this instruction
denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish
refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements
of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw
from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending
the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market
Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is
founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic
telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United
States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister
of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist
monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next
day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic
of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat
Abbas is elected President of the provisional
government.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation
of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the
Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four
hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway
reject membership of the European Community.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the
first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214,
collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and
crashes in San Diego, California, resulting
in the deaths of 144 people.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd
person sworn in as an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States
and the first woman to hold the office.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican
prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack
a prison meals lorry and smash their way
out of the Maze prison. It is the largest
prison escape since WWII and in British
history.
1992 – NASA launched a $511 million probe
to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the
planet in 17 years. Eleven months later,
the probe would fail.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums
closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide
impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes
just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou
7.
2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama, British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President
Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance
for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building
a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
2010 – Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations
General Assembly to request that Israel
end its policy of building settlements in
the West Bank.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)
Christian Feast Day:
Abadir and Iraja and companions (Coptic
Church)
Cadoc
Ceolfrith
Finbarr
Sergius of Radonezh (repose)
September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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